PLATEUP!

Each day is a shift; each shift ends with a card that changes one rule — extra customers, a new dish, a shorter timer. Between days you rearrange the kitchen, and the arrangement carries over, so a bad layout compounds across a whole run rather than resetting.

Two gigabytes, four players, and a difficulty curve that turns into a scheduling puzzle by day eight. It is the co-op game here that most rewards planning on paper before anyone touches the stove.